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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A newly built Qatari offshore rig will need several months of repairs and maintenance after an accident off the Gulf nation’s coast, its owner said Tuesday. The ...
A total of four people have been injured after an oil rig in Grady County caught fire on Friday afternoon. Grady County Fire Chief Rodney Gregory says the fire began as an explosion at the rig, ...
(Reuters) - An offshore gas drilling platform sank off the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, less than a month after a rig sank off the coast of Louisiana and left thousands of barrels of crude oil ...
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- An overturned big-rig blocked all lanes of westbound 80 just east of Treasure Island, causing traffic delays Thursday night. Shortly before 9:40 p.m. three lanes of traffic ...
WORLAND (AP) - The father of a man killed in an oil field accident last year says the $625 fine against Nabors Drilling USA isn't enough. Joshua Riedel, 23, was killed July 23 near Pinedale. "We want ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — An accident on an oil well-maintenance platform killed two workers and injured 10 off Mexico’s coast on Tuesday, company officials reported, blaming the incident on the collapse of ...
NEW ORLEANS — Federal regulators did not need this week's explosion aboard a state-of-the-art rig to know the offshore drilling industry needed new safety rules: Dozens of deaths and hundreds of ...